<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ahh, that helps. Thanks a lot!<div><br></div><div>t.</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 9, 2013, at 2:18 PM, "J. Simmons" <<a href="mailto:jrs@mach30.org">jrs@mach30.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Not sure about floating point math on a chip (I don't have any experience with that one way or the other), but it is the set of regulations that made publishing PGP problematic for a while (if I recall correctly). And it impacts all sorts of things related to space flight (including rockets, satellites, etc).Oh, and it the law that got Defense Distributed in the news last spring (<a href="http://nationalreview.com/corner/347899/state-department-requests-defense-distributed-remove-digital-blueprints-liberator-gun">http://nationalreview.com/corner/347899/state-department-requests-defense-distributed-remove-digital-blueprints-liberator-gun</a>).<div>
<br></div><div> -J</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Bryan Bishop <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kanzure@gmail.com" target="_blank">kanzure@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Tom Igoe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom.igoe@gmail.com" target="_blank">tom.igoe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">What is ITAR?</blockquote><div> </div></div>It's the thing that throws you in prison if you open source a chip that does floating point math.<div class="im">
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